Google announced its annual Science Fair today, calling for project submissions from students worldwide, age 13 to 18. This year’s Google Science Fair grand prize winner will get a trip to Spaceport America in New Mexico to meet the Virgin Galactic team as they prepare for a space flight. Another big prize includes a 10-day […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: 72 Percent of PPC Marketers Plan To Spend Even More In 2014 [PPCHero Study] Hanapin Marketing has released its 2013 State of Paid Search report, revealing how PPC marketers are feeling […]
Two stories out this week are drawing attention to Google’s future office expansion plans. Days ago, we reported on our partner site at Marketing Land that the construction of Google’s new Bay View campus has been delayed temporarily. Today, there is news that Google has purchased nearly 15-acres in Palo Alto, a portion of which […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Ads Makes Campaign & Ad Group Targeting Improvements In its February release, Bing Ads made changes to how ad group and campaign targets relate to each other. Prior to the […]
Google is set to launch major expansion efforts to their Kirkland, Seattle office — home of many of the Google Webmaster Central team. The reports claim this will double the size of the existing office, making this one of largest Google offices outside of Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California. The Kirkland office was first […]
While it might not get off quite as easily in Europe, Google definitely “dodged a bullet” at the FTC, which recently concluded its antitrust investigation and didn’t ask the company to make any changes in the way it presents search results. That was a major disappointment to Google competitors, critics and other third party publishers, […]
The post-mortem analysis of Google’s antitrust settlement happened very quickly yesterday and this morning with some journalists and analysts concluding that factors other than the law were responsible behind the scenes. For example, Politico asserts it was largely “a calculated and expensive charm offensive” (lobbying) that drove the outcome yesterday. An even more absurd analysis argues that […]
After 19 months of investigation, political maneuvering, lobbying and intense speculation the FTC has closed its antitrust investigation of Google. The outcome is almost exactly as we reported yesterday and it’s probably legally correct. Google comes away largely unscathed from the process. One can hear the celebrations getting started in Mountain View. The settlement has […]
Reuters is reporting that majority of those on the US Federal Trade Commission believe an antitrust case should be brought against Google. But if action comes, it doesn’t seem likely to involve Google being found to “favor” its own “vertical” search engines like local or shopping over competing ones. Apparently four of the five FTC commissioners […]
Today, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt said his company hasn’t done anything yet to bring Google Maps to iOS as a standalone app. That seems to contradict Google’s statement last week about wanting this to happen, as well as the company’s central mission. But negotiations and contract issues yet to be revealed might be a […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Removed The Pirate Bay From Instant Search TorrentFreak reports Google has removed The Pirate Bay from showing up in Google’s search suggestions within Google Instant Search. Google Instant Search will […]
In addition to the various government antitrust investigations against Google going on around the world, there is a parallel world of private lawsuits by Google rivals and critics that make similar unfair competition or antitrust claims against Mountain View. They generally allege, among other things, that Google is unfairly referring traffic to its own “vertical […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Search In Pics: David Beckham At Google, Google’s Moscow Office & Bing Bar In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people […]
Google Maps has added a feature where it will highlight in a pink color the borders of a city, postal code or other borders based on your search. To see it yourself, go to Google Maps and search for a city name or even a zip code. You will see a pinkish highlight around the […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Seven Mobile SEO Myths Exposed Not too long ago, the article Mobile SEO is a Myth got a lot of people fired up about the foolish notion that mobile SEO is […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: 4 New Year’s Resolutions Every Digital Marketer Can’t Live Without Over the last 6 months in this column we have looked at all aspects of the overlap between search and display, […]
Google Offers hasn’t rolled out yet to your city in the US? Google’s solution is its first “national” offer that came out today, $25 to spend at REI for $15. But as a person in a non-Google Offers city, I found the promotion just alienated me even more. Offers & The OC I live in Newport Beach, […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Says SEO Is Not Spam Matt Cutts, head of the Google’s web spam fighting team, has gone on record by saying Google does not consider SEO to be spam. Matt […]
Google boosts London’s Silicon Roundabout from BBC News reports Google has signed a ten year deal to lease the entire top floor of the seven floor building in what is known as the Silicon Roundabout. The Silicon Roundabout currently has about 300 firms in the area and it is located in the Old Street area […]
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the FTC’s antitrust investigation of Google will extend to Android, in addition to general search: Six weeks after serving Google with broad subpoenas, FTC lawyers, in conjunction with several state attorneys general, have been asking whether Google prevents smartphone manufacturers that use its Android operating system from using […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google’s Matt Cutts Offering More Detailed Video Search Tips The Google Webmaster Blog announced a new format for Google’s Matt Cutts video tutorials. Instead of the short minute or so videos, […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google’s 12 Sitelink Experiment Returns Google is once again testing — or continuing to test — a jumbo-sized search result that displays a whopping 12 sitelinks below the main/top search result. […]
That image appears to be the first crash involving one of Google’s self-driving cars. (The one on the right with the gear on top.) According to Jalopnik, it happened earlier this week near Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Jalopnik speculates that Google’s Toyota Prius rear-ended another Prius. A Google spokesperson told Business Insider that […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Search For Hotels With Google Hotel Finder Forget using Google Maps when you want to find a hotel to stay at for a business trip or family vacation! You can now […]
Google’s Growth Unsettles Mountain View by the Wall Street Journal reports on the tension growing between Google and the city they have grown up in, Mountain View. As Google continues to grow and require more space, Mountain View needs to expand with them. City council member Laura Macias told the Wall Street Journal “we may […]
Whenever I’m asked what usability is, I get tongue tied. “It’s about humans and computers,” I may say, but they’ll picture robots and talking cars. “I help make web sites that work,” is closer, but vague because technically, if it’s on the Internet, it’s working. Then I’ll hear myself try to make it clearer by […]
Perhaps the lesson is: be careful what you sue for. The French and German-language Belgian newspaper consortium that successfully sued Google for copyright infringement got more than it bargained for this week. The newspapers’ content has been removed not only from Google News (as desired) but the entire Google index. Now the newspapers are crying […]
Earlier this week at its Inside Search event, Google announced a new way to search the web called Search By Image. Rather than enter a text query, Search By Image lets you begin your search with an image and Google will (try to) tell you what it is and show visually similar images. Search By […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: The Doctor Is In: Using An Unbranded Health Site Recently, I had an amazing experience. I was invited to be a part of an all agency partner meeting. Throughout the day, […]
Mercury News reports Google entered an agreement to lease an additional campus with nine building and up to 630,000 additional square feet of space in Mountain View. The new building is right across Highway 101. “We had two other major companies interested in our project, and we had been in discussions with them for several […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: New York Times Continues Paid Link Outing Stories, Looks At Online Flowers Industry Over the weekend, the New York Times published a story called Trying to Game Google on “Mother’s Day […]
Mercury News reports Google is planning on building their own office building, which can fit up to 600,000 square feet of office space. Google’s current space is pretty much as capacity now and Google is looking to pay the city of Mountain View $30 million to lease 9.4 acres near Shoreline Boulevard, according to Mercury […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Impacted By Google’s Panda Update? Google Asks You To Consider This… Amit Singhal, Google’s head of search, published a blog post on the Google Webmaster Central blog named More guidance on […]
Former Googler, Andrew Norman Wilson posted a very interesting video on his blog about a group of Google employees who were portrayed as a “lower class” of Googlers. These Googlers were primarily responsible for the Google Book project where they manually scanned books all day. Andrew Wilson documented how these Googlers worked, starting their day […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Must Censor Google Instant In Italy For Derogatory Suggestions ZDNet UK reports the Court of Milan has ruled that Google has to filter the auto-completions that Google Instant provides in […]
Google product chief Jonathan Rosenberg is not the first high-profile victim of the Larry Page era. While Google has officially confirmed to us that Rosenberg is leaving effective this summer, he is apparently leaving voluntarily. He is choosing family over making a new multi-year commitment to Mountain View. More Time with Family Google told us […]
Today marks the peaceful transfer of power between Eric Schmidt and Larry Page (pictured in his official Google photo at right). Page is now the CEO and Schimdt the Executive Chairman. We don’t know if Schmidt will be nominated for the post of US Commerce Secretary (as rumored) and have to leave Google. But Page […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Acquisition Marketers And The SEO ROI Dilemma After over 12 years practicing the art of SEO, and selling SEO services to clients, I thought the industry had reached a stage of […]
It’s not even April 1st in Mountain View, but the April Fools Day comedy game is already over and I’m declaring Google the winner. Hiring autocompleters? YouTube 1911? Gmail Motion? Chromercise? Ding, ding, ding and ding. Game over. If you’re planning any big pranks tomorrow, skip it. Below, what’s out there now — and a […]
Google’s Gingerbread (Android 2.3) offers near field communication (NFC) support, which can be used for both “contactless payments” and marketing purposes. People tend to think about and discuss NFC in the context of “mobile wallets” and payments exclusively but there’s a great deal more it can do. For example, Google has been testing NFC-based marketing […]